Survived Santa Barbara

We not only survived but came home in good shape with everyone behaving most of the time if you don’t count Miles kicking the back of the seat in front of him on the plane ride. It wasn’t very nice of that lady to let me know that she would not stand for it unless he had a medical condition. We managed to have Lucas and Miles change seats so Miles wasn’t booted off the flight completely. He did try to be humorous on two occasions when he stopped to lie down in the middle of the sidewalk in a recreation of his last year’s sidewalk nap. This year he chose the archeological dig at the museum for his napping site as he wanted to be covered with sand and have just his bones left for digging.

Claire and I tried a Segway and we were pretty good at it though we turned down the two hour ride. We went on a Pirate boat ride, touched sharks and starfish at the children’s aquarium, jumped in the ocean waves, and swam in many pools notably the Montecito Country Club which only the kids and mom attended. Lucas loved playing with his cousins from Georgia at his grandpa’s house and he kept a huge smile on his face the entire 7 days. This makes me wonder what’s going on in Spokane that keeps him from being that giddy here. They liked seeing tiny sea animals in the microscope.

So today is the Warden All-Class Reunion and since we have now been graduated for 50 years I plan to attend. Jane isn’t going to be there but maybe I’ll recognize a few old people and I know Barb, Phyllis, Sondra, and Linda Lou will show up. I think we will be discussing health care and not the general Obama type but the specific types of aches and pains. I wish my mom could go as she would really like to be there.

It was nice for you to get some family visitors. Did you recognize Michelle as it’s been a long time? Shizuo has a web cam so we will be looking at you one day soon too when he determines the time difference between Japan and Chicago.